I find more and more executives less and less well informed about the outside world, if only because they believe that the data on the computer printouts are ipso facto information.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.

Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

What gets measured gets managed.

The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

The key to greatness is to look for people's potential and spend time developing it.

The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.

You can’t argue with facts. You’re not entitled to your own facts.

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

The screwball's an unnatural pitch. Nature never intended a man to turn his hand like that throwing rocks at a bear.

But she had that laugh, and the sound of it was so beautiful that when you heard it, it was as if your eyes saw her through your ears and she was transformed.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we're blood.

But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.

See the ridiculous in everything.

Fiction. . . . It's like goading a mongoose and a cobra into battle and staying with them to see who wins.

One thing for sure is it will be written in the Icelandic language. All of my literary work is.

To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.